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"ref": "1865, John Stock (Vicar of Finchingfield, Essex.), An Exposition of the First Epistle General of St. John.",
"text": "It is our wisdom to master this wastening incredulity: to overcome unbelief, by faith; and so the more easily this present world; making light of its permitted trials, and sitting loose to its possessions.",
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"ref": "1908, original 1613-1614, The Publications of the Yorkshire Parish Register Society, volume 33, page 203",
"text": "[…] Thomas s. of Chr: Clifton of Clifton & Will'm sonne of Robert Miller of Leedes lost in the snow the 8t of Februarie & not found till then & Clifto's child strangly wastened all saveing a very few bones thothr whole & fresh […]",
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"ref": "1920, Lady Augusta Gregory, A Book of Saints and Wonders",
"text": "And there are seven wax tapers in the quire\" he said \"that have never been lighted by any man's hand, and that bum day and night at every hour of prayers and that have never wastened or lessened through these fourscore years.\"",
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"ref": "1962, Evidence, numbers 5-8, page 83",
"text": "[…] do you love me, Mabel?\nnot a pennysworth, Joe\ntroves I lost I never looked for: cracked\nfountain pens that stained my fingers wastened\nby irreconcilable degrees into the dust.",
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"ref": "1980, Nancy Lenz Harvey, Thomas Cardinal Wolsey, page 118",
"text": "Wolsey wastened no moment in responding. In all diplomatic courtesy, he confirmed Henry's commitment to Francis and his willingness to meet with Charles.",
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"ref": "2015, Oliver Lockewell, Behind The Mirror: Fright Night Flash Fiction",
"text": "Not a second was to be wastened when your parent sends you on an errand or some chore.",
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[
"powerful",
"powerful"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To dissolve or evanesce; to become disintegrated."
],
"links": [
[
"dissolve",
"dissolve"
],
[
"evanesce",
"evanesce"
],
[
"disintegrated",
"disintegrated"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Middle English terms with rare senses"
],
"glosses": [
"To violate or interrupt."
],
"links": [
[
"violate",
"violate"
],
[
"interrupt",
"interrupt"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figurative, rare) To violate or interrupt."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"rare"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈwaːstən/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈwastən/"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "waaste"
},
{
"word": "waasten"
},
{
"word": "waaston"
},
{
"word": "waastye"
},
{
"word": "waist"
},
{
"word": "wast"
},
{
"word": "waste"
},
{
"word": "wasti"
},
{
"word": "wayst"
}
],
"word": "wasten"
}
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